Tenellia zelandica

Tenellia zelandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Dexiarchia
clade Cladobranchia
clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Fionoidea
Family: Fionidae
Genus: Tenellia
Species: T. zelandica
Binomial name
Tenellia zelandica
Odhner, 1924[1]
Synonyms
  • Cuthona zelandica Odhner, 1924
  • Trinchesia zelandica (Odhner, 1924)

Tenellia zelandica is a species of small sea slug or aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Fionidae.[2]

Distribution

This species was described from Auckland Island. It has not been found since the original description.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Odhner, N. H. (1924). "Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific expedition 1914-16. XIX. New Zealand Mollusca." Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København 77:1-90, pls. 1-2.
  2. ↑ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  3. ↑ Miller, M. C. (1977). "Aeolid nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) of the family Tergipedidae from New Zealand waters." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 60(3):197-222, pl. 1.
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